Sure Shot Burger
Hamburger restaurant · Concordia ·
Smash burgers and crispy fries with house sauce
Smash burgers and crispy fries with house sauce
"After establishing itself as one of Portland’s top smash burger spots as a popular cart, this place is expanding into a brick-and-mortar just about 50 feet from its current location. The forthcoming restaurant is described as a family-friendly, all-ages establishment built around a model of cheeseburgers and highballs, with an expanded menu that includes a drive-in salad, crispy Brussels sprouts, milkshakes, slushies, frozen gin and tonics for adults, and orange freezes for kids that are described as “vintage McDonald’s orangeade meets a frozen Orange Julius.” It will also keg its own root beer, served in frosty mugs for classic floats, and the move indoors lets the team extend hours to roughly noon to 9 p.m., six days a week, while allowing for more ambitious cocktails and careful to-go cup design. A defining part of the experience is the deliberate focus on in-person dining and counter service, with no third-party delivery apps, no AI, no ordering kiosks, and an insistence on old-school human interaction. Inside, the design takes cues from old-school Portland fast food, with Formica surfaces, an open ordering counter free of screens and kiosks, bright booths salvaged from a former mini-golf course, visible slushy machines, and stainless steel milkshake mixers, with orders called out over a loudspeaker to keep everything simple and transparent. Outside, it shares a beer garden with neighboring Sorbu Paninoteca and the Cully Farmers Market, helping to create a neighborhood hangout suited to repeat visits. For now, it still operates as a cart at Oakshire Brewing while the new space, taking over the Christmas-colored building that currently houses Taqueria Los Pepitos Locos, prepares for a soft opening in April." - Ron Scott
"Situated in the parking lot of Oakshire Brewing’s beer hall, Sure Shot is a burger shack in every sense of the word. The burgers here are simple, but hover near smash-patty perfection: The cart’s most popular burger, simply called the “double,” is comprised of two buttery patties, double cheese, pickle, onion, and a house burger sauce. As a whole, it has all of the trappings of a fast food burger, if a fast food burger was even richer, cheesier, and had twice the amount of caramelization. Beer and burgers are natural buds, and Oakshire’s Czech-style pils and its amber ale are both great options for washing down smash burgers." - Rebecca Roland
"A well-branded food truck parked outside of Oakshire on NE 42nd. Jill Dehnert, Group Publisher, writes about the Hot Dog Hamburger: "The Hot Dog Hamburger could easily be perceived as going a little far with the smashburger experimentation trend, but is a legitimately delicious meal. A double patty smashed with fried hot dog and topped with poppyseed mustard, relish, sauerkraut, and sport pepper all on a perfect potato bun. Not sure where you can go wrong, but if following a trend makes me wrong, maybe I don’t want to be right." - Brenna Houck
"Situated in the parking lot of Oakshire Brewing's beer hall, Sure Shot is a burger shack in every sense of the word. The burgers here are simple, but hover near smash-patty perfection: The cart’s most popular burger, simply called the “double,” is comprised of two buttery patties, double cheese, pickle, onion, and a house burger sauce. As a whole, it has all of the trappings of a fast food burger, if a fast food burger was even richer, cheesier, and had twice the amount of caramelization. Beer and burgers are natural buds, and Oakshire's Czech-style pils and its amber ale are both great options for washing down smash burgers." - Ron Scott, Janey Wong
"I noticed Sureshot Burger continuing to shine as part of Portland's vibrant food cart scene." - Eater Staff